dummy

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dummy (plural dummies)

  1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  2. An unintelligent person.
    Don't be such a dummy!
  3. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  4. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
    To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
  5. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
    The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
  6. (Australian, New Zealand, UK) A pacifier.
    The baby wants her dummy.
  7. (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
  8. (UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; feint.
    • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, BBC:
      Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.
  9. (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
    The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
  10. (programming) An unused parameter or value.
    If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

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dummy (third-person singular simple present dummies, present participle dummying, simple past and past participle dummied)

  1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
    The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
  2. To feint
    • 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, BBC:
      The more glamorous qualities usually associated with him are skill and pace and he used those to race on to a ball across him and dummy a defender before having a right-foot shot saved.
    • 2011 January 15, Kevin Darling, “West Ham 0 - 3 Arsenal”, BBC:
      For the first, the 30-year-old allowed Walcott space on the right to send in a pass that was expertly dummied by Samir Nasri, allowing Van Persie to swivel and smash right-footed past Robert Green.

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